Archive for February 2017

Why are we so surprised to be living in such difficult times? Weren’t Paul’s last words to Timothy a warning of such things? “In the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents,…

“I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved.” (Romans 9.25 MSG) I remember the moment I finally got up enough nerve to say aloud “I am God’s Beloved.” Now this is my primary identity. After half a lifetime of wrestling with unworthiness, I finally…